Faye was 5th in the Junior
race at the European Cross-country in Edinburgh in a time of 16.07. Great Britain
took the team Gold medal.

(Holding Trophy)

2004

Faye Fullerton won bronze in
a high class BUSA (British University Students Association) championships at
Dundee. Lisa Dobriskey of Loughborough won by 9 secs in 23:48 from
in-form Louise Damen, with Faye, representing
St Mary's Twickenham third in 24:12, also picking up team silver.

At the English NationalsFaye
Fullerton added the National U20 Cross Country title to her u17 title from 2001 at Durham, enjoyed another trip up North from her base at
the UK Athletics Endurance Performance Centre at St Mary’s University
Twickenham.After
a sluggish start she same through for a clear win by 15 seconds from Loughborough University-based steeplechaser Bryony
Frost (Isle of Wight) over the very hilly course in
Leeds.

But success wasn’t as
routine as it looked. Fullerton, does much of her training close to Hampton
Court in West London. But she said of her race at what Yorkshire folk call the
North’s equivalent of Hampton Court: “I
got the worst start; must have been in the 40s. I thought maybe I could still
get a medal but I didn’t think I could win until there was maybe a mile to
go.”

Faye
was 4th in the Senior Women's 4km at the Reebok
Inter-counties in Nottingham, in a time of 14:12. She battled to catch the
World Cross Country team selectors' eye. But with UK not committed to sending a
team in this event and only considering athletes capable of sub-16m 5km pace she
looks out of luck in making her first World Cross as a senior.

Preview:
Faye Fullerton
(Havering Mayesbrook AC) replaces Lisa Dobriskey in the Senior Women’s 4km
race. Fullerton, who is based the UK Athletics Endurance Performance
Centre at St Mary’s, was part of the Gold medal winning Norwich Union GB
Junior Women’s Team at last year’s European Cross Country Championships
with an individual fifth place and makes her Senior debut. She finished
fourth in the 4km race at the Reebok UK Inter-Counties Championships, supported
by Anchor, in Nottingham on 6 March.

Faye Fullerton also
acquitted herself well on Sunday in the World Cross Country Championships in
Brussels. Called into the team at short notice after a withdrawal Faye tackled
the 4km race, 24 hours after the GB women's team won bronze in the long course
8km event. Faye finished 66th, after lying 40th at half way and told the UKA
website “It was OK. I
didn’t go off too hard because obviously I had looked at the course a couple
of days ago and knew that by the time our race came round it would be like a
bog. On the second lap, they just wound it up. It got faster and faster and I
found it hard to go with the pace. It was a good experience – my first Senior
race. I’m happy with how I ran.”

Faye Fullerton was a member
of the gold–medal winning GB Students team on Sunday which triumphed at the
World University Cross Country Championship in Italy on Sunday. Faye
finished 11th overall, just seven days after making her GB senior
debut in the Senior Women’s 4km event at the IAAF World Cross Country
Championships. This time the distance was 6.5km and Faye’s finishing time of
22:53 made her fourth GB scorer as Louise Damen (Bournemouth AC and Loughborough
University) finished second in 22:11, five seconds behind the Moroccan winner.
Britain finished as the top team thanks to Kate Reed, fourth in 22:20 and
Collette Fagan, eighth in 22:48, just five seconds and three places ahead of
Faye. The GB students’ squad was completed by Freya Murray, 18th in
23:10.